May 21, 2021 08:11:09 am
The Hong Kong Court of First Instance denied a bid on Thursday for a jury trial by the first person charged under the country’s new security law, Tong Ying Kit. The court found that a trial in front of a jury is not a constitutional right and that decision from a panel of judges will not be different compared to a panel of juries.
Tong Ying Kit was charged under sections 20, 21 and 24 of the New Security Law for “incitement to secession” and “terrorist activities” after he rammed his motorcycle into several riot police officers. Tong has been in custody since last July along with 300 other protesting activists. The common charges these activists are facing are in relation to chanting protest slogans or publishing protest material online, which the Hong Kong government deems to be actions of insurrection.
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published : 17 May 2021 at 13:34
2 FILE PHOTO: Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, China Feb 9, 2021. (Reuters)
Hong Kong s largest pro-democracy media group announced it was halting share trading Monday, two days after authorities froze the assets of its jailed owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law.
The announcement came the same day Lai who is already in jail pleaded guilty alongside nine other activists to unlawful assembly charges, the latest in a string of prosecutions brought against the city s democracy movement.
Next Digital Limited which publishes the Apple Daily newspaper said it would halt trading pending the release of an announcement about Lai s frozen assets, in a statement to the city s stock exchange.